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ERNEST DREVET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NAPKlN-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,332, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed October 11, 1892. Serial No. 448,523. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST DREVET, of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Napkin-Ring, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in napkin rings; and the object of my invention is to produce a simple and adjustable ring which is capable of being made up in many pretty designs, which may be opened wide so as to permit a napkin to be thrust through it, which is adapted to be only partially opened so as to enable the napkin to be folded in some fanciful shape and held in position, and which also is adapted to be secured to a napkin and serve as a hook so as to enable a person to suspend the napkin from his collar and cause it to protect the front portionof his clothing.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the napkin ring applied to a napkin and suspended from the wearers collar. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the napkin ring in folded position, in which position it is adapted for use as a hook. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the napkin ring when opened wide; and Fig. 4 is a detail longitudinal sectionof a portion of the napkin ring and clasp.

The napkin ring consists essentially of two similar curved bands 10 which are pivoted together near the ends, as shown at 11, and which consequently when opened form an elliptical ring. It is obvious, however, that the curve of the bands may be made greater or less, as desired, so as to make the ring more or less round when open. One of the bands 10 has one end portion prolonged, as shown at 12, in Fig. 3, the prolonged end extending beyond the pivot 11 of the band. Near the pivot 11 of the band having the prolonged end and on opposite sides of the band are produced outwardly extending lugs 13 to which is pivoted the clasp or plate 14. This plate has on its under side, depending parallel lugs 15, which are pivoted to the lugs 13 by means of a pin 18 or other convenient means. The clasp has one end pressed out by a spring 17 which is coiled upon the pivot pin 18, and the free ends of which extend between the clasp plate 14 and one of the bands 10, as best shown in Fig. 4. One end of the clasp plate 14 acts as a jaw and is forced by the spring 17 upon a small boss or lug 16 on the prolonged end portion 12 of the band 10, and the lug or boss assists in holding the napkin, although it may be dispensed with without affecting the principle of the invention. When used in the ordinary way as a napkin ring, the two bands 10 are spread apart or opened wide, as shown in Fig. 3, and a folded napkin may be held in the ring thus formed, in the usual way. If one end portion of the napkin ring is to be held, the outer portions of the bands 10 may be but slightly separated so as to permit one end or corner only of the napkin to enter between them.

When the ring is used as a hook to suspend a napkin from the neck of a person so as to protect the clothing, the bands 10 are folded together one upon another, as shown in Fig. 2, and one edge or corner of the napkin is socured between the prolonged end 12 of one of the bands 10 and the clasp plate 14. The hook formed by the folded bands is then placed upon the collar of the wearers clothing and the napkin is suspended, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be noticed that to open the clasp so as to permit the insertion of a napkin it is only necessary to press one end of it so as to overcome the tension of the spring 17. Upon releasing the clasp, the spring 17 throws it back to place and binds the napkin between the clasp plate and the adjacent band.

The clasp plate 14 may be ornamented handsomely, and in any desired way, and it is a convenient and conspicuous place upon which a monogram of the initials of the owner may be produced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A napkin ring consisting in the two curved bands 10, 10, overlapped at both of their ends and pivoted together by pivots 11 11, and the clasp l4 pivoted between its ends at 18 upon the upper or outer side of the end of one of the bands 10 and provided with a spring pressing one of its ends against the said band, the opposite end of the clasp serving as a finger piece for opening it, substantially as set forth.

ERNEST DREVET.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. LANE, TILLIAM M. TOOKER. 

